I heard anyone could develop the tender points used to diagnosis FMS if deprived of sleep. Is that the cause of fibromyalgia?
Back in the dark ages when FM was even less understood, a researcher did a famous study where he deprived “normal” people of sleep and found that they “developed” the tender points of FM. For many years this tale held up, but over the years many tried to duplicate this study and could not. It is now generally accepted that the study must have been flawed, and normal people will not develop FMS without sleep, and our poor sleep is because we have FM. But this study is hearkening back to these original concepts. The first wave of research in FM all focused on various sleep studies (Modolfsky, Hench, Yunnus, Smythe, etc). It is the origin of giving people with FMS sleeping medications in the hope they will improve.
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